Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing Column will appear on Fridays beginning next week...
...scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French drive toward Neunkirchen. Should the fighting swing west from there, it would likely level the home of Hitler's roving Ambassador, Franz von Papen...
...Mississippi rare is the political alliance that lasts out the winter. No observer would guarantee that the State's Bilbonic plague would endure, while one & all agreed that Pat Harrison probably has something up his sleeves besides the choppy golf swing with which he bruises the delicate greensward of the Burning Tree Club near Washington...
...setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
...director shook up the management. In the Fair's outdoor plaza, Temple Compound, Dr. Edwin Franko Goldman, whose brass band had been playing classical music to crowds of around 1,500 a day, was replaced by swing band leaders, notably Benny Goodman whose hot band played to 2,000,000 customers in five weeks. The Fair's admissions jumped, by last week were averaging 37,600 daily. At this rate by its closing date, December 2, it would have 12,000,000 customers, 40% fewer than originally expected, 13% fewer than San Francisco's 1915 exposition...